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How would you like a 60-Inch 1080p HDTV for $999? Or, how about a 42-inch Plasma HDTV for $599?
On November 28, the day after Thanksgiving, shoppers across America will pour into retail stores looking for ‘Black Friday’ bargains on everything from appliances to apparel.
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Included with many Blu-ray releases is a small slip of paper which contains a warning that the disc may not play in your player unless your player has its latest firmware upgrade. It suggests that you visit http://www.blu-raydisc.com/forbestresults which contains a listing of all the various Blu-ray players and links to the [...]

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Six major movie studios sued RealNetworks, the Seattle-based digital media company, on Tuesday over its new $30 software program that allows people to make digital copies of their DVDs.
As the opening warning on every DVD indicates, Hollywood has bitterly opposed such copying. The studios have argued that it threatens their emerging business [...]

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Circuit City Stores posted a wider quarterly loss and withdrew its fiscal 2009 outlook Monday amid sluggish sales, poor traffic and heightened competition.
Circuit City, which ranks behind Best Buy among the nation’s consumer electronics retailers, said it lost $239.2 million, or $1.45 a share, compared with a loss of $62.8 million, or [...]

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More than six months after HD-DVD gave up the format war, there are several signs that Sony’s rival Blu-ray format is struggling to gain consumer acceptance. According to recent sales data from Nielsen, market share for Blu-ray discs in the U.S. is declining, and Sony and its Blu-ray partners are trying several [...]

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A Cinerama shot from How the West Was Won

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Home theater buffs can resurrect a groundbreaking Cold War-era film format in their homes this week with the new Blu-ray Disc version of How the West Was Won, out today [...]

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Does Steve Jobs have a surprise in store for the analysts and reporters gathering in San Francisco for Let’s Rock — the dog-and-pony show Tuesday at which Apple (AAPL) is widely expected to unveil the next generation of iPods?
Peter S. Magnusson hopes he does — and what he’s wishing for is a [...]

HDTV Intended Buyers Prefer HD DVD, Are Mainstream
First wave of high-definition DVD owners choose Blu-ray, but next wave to choose HD DVD, research group claims.

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12.17.2007 — Nearly one-third of non-HDTV households intend [...]

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3 Good Reasons To Stick With HD DVD
By most accounts, Blu-ray has surged ahead in the high-def format war. But here are three reasons why HD DVD is still a solid investment.

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Blu-ray and HD-DVD have been fighting it out to see which will become the high-definition successor to the DVD. But now that Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. has agreed to distribute its content on Blu-ray discs, that battle may be over. “We’ve been monitoring the situation with consumers for a while now and they have clearly [...]